Quotes by D. Hawkins

We can learn from the classical psycho-analysis in which there was the rule, "Always approach the patient's problems first from the side of the super ego (conscience) before beginning the uncovering process of what lies in wait in the unconscious." This means to first soften the conscience, make it more reasonable, and diminish its capacity to be rigid and judgmental with black-and-white, right-and-wrong attitudes and judgments. Unattenuated, the super-ego or conscience can be extremely cruel and savage unless domesticated. It is from this area of the ego that self-hatred and even suicide caused by guilt can result. I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 380, 2003

Question: How do I determine how "dangerous" my conscience is?Answer: One can just simply calibrate it. If this is not possible or acceptable, then one can pretty well evaluate what is present by looking at what punishments one thinks that evil-doers and society deserve for this is the same fate that your conscience holds in abeyance for you. If you think evil-doers deserve death, then that is the very same sentence that you have already pronounced on yourself. I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 380, 2003

To ameliorate the reaction, it is necessary to realize that this material is not the real you and yet needs the light of day to be extinguished. I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 380, 2003

Question: Is it ALL projection?Answer: YES.It is best to speak to the inner conscience and commit it to becoming a useful ally and teacher rather than a sadistic self-perpetrator. It is important to DECISIVELY BIND its purpose to be educative. One must make a decision that a mature conscience is a useful tool and a helpful guide with which one is in accord by the choice of one's own will. By exercise of the will, the conscience can then be PROHIBITED from becoming just another self-indulgent, wallowing-in-guilt, paradoxically egoistic perpetrator. Sedona Seminar God, Religion and Spirituality, 3 DVD set, 10. December 2005

Quotes by various other sources

Appeal

If we seriously listen to this God within us [conscience, if you will], we usually find ourselves being urged to take the more difficult path, the path of more effort rather than less. [...] Each and every one of us, more or less frequently, will hold back from this work [...] Like every one of our ancestors before us, we are all lazy. So original sin does exist; it is our laziness.M. Scott Peck [LoC 475] (1936-2005) US American psychiatrist, psychotherapist, The Road Less Traveled [LoC 510] 1st edition 1978, Random House, United Kingdom, 15. March 1990, Touchstone, 25th anniversary edition 4. February 2003

Conscience driving question

If opposing Israel is anti-semitic then what do you call supporting a state that has been engaged in brutal ethnic cleansing for seven decades? What does that make you? Miko Peled (*1961) Israeli-American activist, Jewish son of an Israeli general Matti Peled (1923-1995) engaged in the 48' and 67' wars, karate instructor, speaker, author, 10. August 2014

The term 'anti-Semitism' is used by the Israel lobby in the United States to restrict criticism of Israel's violent and inhumane policies against the Palestinian people and Israel's domination over the US government. Images From Palestine, Facebook comment, 9. January 2016

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. Saint Thomas Aquinas [Doctor Universalis] [LoC 570, works 460/730] (1225-1274) Italian Catholic saint, Dominican priest, highly influential philosopher, theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, Doctor of the Church, Thomas Gilby, translator, Philosophical Texts, S. 291, Oxford University Press, 1951

Without knowing it man is always concerned with God.What some people call instinct or intuition is nothing other than God.God is that voice inside us which tells us what to do and what not to do.In other words, our conscience.Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, R.F.C. Hull, editor, C.G. Jung Speaking. Interviews and Encounters, S. 249, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, December 1977, reprint edition 1. February 1987

When you cannot criticize an action because you'll be accused of being more evil than the evil you're pointing out because you're [called] a hater then nobody will point it out anymore because nobody wants to take the heat for that process [of civic courage]. […] I am warning you that you can't let your positivity lead your conscience, only your consciousness. And you have to separate consciousness from conscience. You do not want to be a person without conscience, you want to be a person of conscience. And if you want to save future generations of women all over the world you probably have to stand up. […] If you want to cripple a society take the brain power out of half the population [women in patriarchal societies]. […] You have to vote with your feet, your heart and your hands. You have to vote by action. […] Confrontation isn't always the answer, but sometimes it is. [...] That courage you have to go against the trend is the courage you have to have now to live every day, because you have to reestablish freedom of thought. Rev. Rosalyn L. Bruyere (*1946) US American energy healer, aura reader, spiritual teacher, white honorary medicine woman, founder of "The Healing Light Center Church", Sierra Madre, California, Easter sermon 2014, minute 29:39, 42:14 minutes duration, recorded 20. April 2014

There are three powers, three powers alone, able to conquer and to hold captive forever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their happiness. Those forces are

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.James Madison [Father of the Constitution, US Founding Father] (1751-1836) US American chief architect and author of the United States Bill of Rights [LoC 640], fourth US president (1809-1817), Property, chapter 16, document 23, 29. March 1792

Englische Texte – English section on Conscience

Conscience – keywords

Paul the Apostle [Saul of Tarsus, Saint Paul] [LoC 745] (5-67 AD) This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts [conscience] at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God. 1 John 3, 19-21 (NT)

The highly influential philosopher Doctor Universalis and most revered Catholic saint Saint Thomas Aquinas [LoC 570] (1225-1274) pointed out the primacy of conscience, not blind obedience to the direction of dogma and doctrine handed out by people in power positions.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Paul the Apostle [LoC 745] (5-67 AD), the foremost missionary in the early Christian communities across the Roman Empire concluded that conscience is the universal knowledge of God's law, which is the inner guiding of one's external behaviour. When conscience is corrupted the Holy Spirit may intervene to 'put on the mind of Christ'.

Paul the Apostle [Saul of Tarsus, Saint Paul] [LoC 745] (5-67 AD) When outsiders who have never heard of God's law follow it more or less by instinct, they confirm its truth by their obedience. They show that God's law is not something alien, imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of our creation. There is something deep within them that echoes God's yes and no, right and wrong. Romans 2, 14-15 (NT)

The vow of obedience taken by nuns and monks is a vow to submit their minds and hearts to God, NOT to any human being. The supreme authority in regards to one's actions is to listen to one's own conscience, the voice of God speaking within.Given a person is wired to an erroneous conscience they are best advised to follow their conscience, i.e. that what they understand the inner voice of God speaking to them.

Excerpt from Crime and Punishment

The Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky (11.11.1821-9.2.1881) had a violent alcoholic father. He, an epileptic and a gambler, was an atheistic doubtful subversive revolutionary. During four years of exile with hard labor at a prison camp in Siberia he converted to Christianity and panslawism. His critics view him to be one of the greatest psychologists in world literature. In the 1920s Hermann Hesse deemed him as a "prophet of the twentieth century."

Torn between pity and proud idealistic egoism, perverted into a contemptuous disdain for the submissive herd.

Prior to committing a capital crime Raskolnikov had a prophetic horse dream which foreshadowed the nihilistic downturn of Russia. It was about the death of an innocent creature: A mare was tortured and sacrificed by a group of drunken men who were taken by a violent binge. His seven year old compassionate dream-self tried to help the beaten up horse in vain. The boy was the only one who protested. The adults would not listen to him and pulled him away. Feeling utterly powerless his heart cramped.
The symbolical message of the horse dream was:

It implied the impending murder.

It pointed to the women who sacrificed themselves for impatient men.

Raskolnikov, a hater rather than a lover of his fellow humans, espoused the erroneous theory that humanitarian ends justify evil means. A Napoleon-like morality led him to kill "low life". He murdered a wretched "useless" old moneylender and her witnessing retarded sister to supposedly alleviate the human misery. However, he was unable to steal his victim's money, thereby failing to meet his calculated standards of committing a "perfect murder". His double crime raised pangs of conscience in him. Seized by nightmarish guilt his life became miserable. For days he was shaken by fever. Mildly insane and restlessly driven he turned against his mother.
Finally, Sonja, a faithful prostitute, convinced him to report his crime and accept his sentence, which he did.

Slowing downwards to the roots of one's being'Slow' and 'down' are modes of the soul; they are connective modes, ways of keeping connected to oneself and to one’s environment. 'Slowing downwards' refers to more than simply moving slowly, it means growing down towards the roots of one’s being. Instead of outward growth and upward climb, life at times must turn inward and downward in order to grow in other ways. There is a shift to the vertical down that re-turns us to root memories, root metaphors, and timeless things that shape our lives from within. Slowing downwards creates opportunities to dwell more deeply in one’s life, for the home we are looking for in this world is within us all along. The lost home that we are seeking is ourselves; it is the story we carry within our soul. Michael MeadeMosaicvoices.org, US American storyteller, scholar of mythology, psychology, anthropology, ritualist, spokesman in the Men's Movement, author, Why the World Doesn't End. Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss, 30. October 2012

The brain of a psychopath rests in the "predator mode." Robert D. Hare's check list on psychopathy was developed at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Hare evaluated the ratio of psychopaths (people set in "predator mode"):1% psychopaths – normal population4% psychopaths – CEOs/board members of companies25% psychopaths – prison inmates